Many challenges continued to face the Bureau of Meteorology in 2004-05, including:

• maintaining its operations during the relocation of the Head Office and Victorian Regional Office;
• establishing continuing efficiencies to enable the provision of enhanced, user-targeted products and services;
• ensuring the availability and delivery of climate-related information that directly meets the needs of agriculturalists, water resource managers and policy makers; and
• achieving an effective balance between automated and manual observations programs to ensure that the needs of the Bureau and the community for meteorological data are met in the most cost-effective manner.